prole Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Palestinians breach West Bank wall Mon, Nov 09, 2009 Activists made a hole in Israel's West Bank wall for the second time in less than a week today in a demonstration to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Their faces masked, the activists tethered a two-metre wide section of the cement barrier to a truck which then pulled it over. The crowd of around 50, which had gathered at a section of the barrier near an Israeli checkpoint at Qalandiya, cheered as the six-metre high section fell. Israeli troops fired tear gas at the crowd, some of whom threw stones over the wall. Several demonstrators passed through the hole they had made, hoisting a Palestinian flag and setting ablaze tyres on the other side. The panels of the walls in Israel's separation barrier are cast in the same inverted T-shape as the wall constructed through Berlin by communist East Germany. Israel began building its barrier of fences and walls at the height of the Palestinian uprising that began in 2000 and it now runs along most of the West Bank border, at many points encroaching into West Bank territory. It says it was built to prevent suicide bombers entering Israel and has largely succeeded in doing so. Palestinians see it as an attempt to seize land on which they aim to establish an independent state. Violent protests at its construction have become a regular Friday event in which Israeli police fire gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing Palestinians. "Today we commemorate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall," said Abdullah Abu Rahma, leader of the People's Campaign to Fight the Wall. "This is the first step in a series of activities we will be holding in the coming days to express our firm attachment to our land and our rejection of this wall." The protest mirrored a similar event last Friday in the West Bank village of Nilin, where Palestinian youths almost toppled a segment of the wall using a hydraulic car-jack. In a non-binding decision in 2004, the International Court of Justice said the barrier was illegal and should be taken own because it crossed occupied territory. Israeli leaders have said the barrier is a temporary obstacle that could be removed once a peace agreement with the Palestinians is signed.--from Irish Times 11/9/09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prole Posted November 9, 2009 Author Share Posted November 9, 2009 I heard there's going to be some black Hobbits in the new Lord of the Rings movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fairweather Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Too bad your cult leader couldn't find time to be at the event in Berlin. But, then, I guess he's never really been all that happy about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prole Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 Too bad your cult leader couldn't find time to be at the event in Berlin. Not invited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 walls are built to keep those without a ticket from enjoying product they didn't pay for....like this: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6904212.ece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 or maybe its to protect them from this: David Hasselhoff will co-present the ceremony, 20 years after his now legendary performance at the Brandenburg Gate on New Years Eve 1989. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete_H Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Apparently the Germans love David Hasselhof. Maybe they think he's some really avant garde satire of popular culture or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prole Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 Maybe they think he's some really avant garde satire of popular culture or something. He's not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 think of how much more popular the zoo would be if they fed the lions like this every time? [video:youtube]DIo2E4iCxrM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Did you hear the latest wingnut conspiracy theory about Obama being best pal with that commie dude that built the great wall of china? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete_H Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Pussy uptown zoo lions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassgowkiss Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Too bad your cult leader couldn't find time to be at the event in Berlin. But, then, I guess he's never really been all that happy about it. Neither was old Bush or even Thatcher. Both urged Gorbatchov to stop it, which is fairly well documented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairweather Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 (edited) Too bad your cult leader couldn't find time to be at the event in Berlin. But, then, I guess he's never really been all that happy about it. Neither was old Bush or even Thatcher. Both urged Gorbatchov to stop it, which is fairly well documented. Really? Please share your sources. And what do you think about Obama stabbing Poland and CZR in the back? Edited November 10, 2009 by Fairweather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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